New US Administration Creating Rifts With All States: Greek EditorialThe new US government led by George W. Bush is rapidly creating rifts with virtually all states in the world, including US friends and allies, said an editorial of the Greek daily "Kathimerini" Thursday.The editorial said that after only two months in power, the new US administration has already transformed the climate pervading international relations, and a spirit of antagonism is gradually replacing the efforts of previous years to enhance cooperation. "It clashed with 132 states after torpedoing the Kyoto protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases, tussled with Europe over plans for a missile defense system, revived a Cold World climate over relations with a benign Russian through the massive deportation of 50 Russian diplomats, disrupted the rapprochement between North and South Korea and now has tense relations with China due to the latter's detention of a US Navy spy plane, and so on," the editorial pointed out. The editorial said that Washington is now implementing a policy of aggressive promotion of the American national interest regardless of the consequences, the discontent and the polarization caused. The editorial said a new term has been recently coined in Europe's political vocabulary to describe the new US policy: "Unilateralism". It added that Europe's desperate efforts to remind the US government of the political and moral obligations of the sole superpower toward the rest of the world have met with no response from Washington. |
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